We are gonna have to redo the fencing though I think.. >> Hubby built our fence to keep the woods critters out, and our critters in. It has worked for 4 years without breach in either direction. It's a bit more labor intensive, but our only dog chase was due to a gate left open. A deer could jump it, but they don't because it's easier to go another way.
You might find some variation of it useful for your fencing.
We have 6' tall 2"x4" welded wire fence, but it's actually two runs of 3' wire, one above the other. (3' wire is a LOT cheaper than 6' - I suppose because it's more common and we got it on sale). The posts are treated 4"x4"s, 8 feet apart, with a little concrete poured into each post hole and tamped.
The part that has really made it work is on the bottom: treated 8'x4"x4" timbers laid in a trench and tamped flush into the ground between each post. We used the little garden tiller to break the ground exactly the right width to lay the bottom timbers. These seriously discourage digging in either direction. All critters seem to assume that the bottom barrier goes very deep, and none have yet thought to dig under it. (Our Mini-Pin could dig a hole to China in 3 minutes or less, while Ombre seems to dig holes more for recreation.)
Nothing over and nothing under equals a good fence for us.
Ron saved some $$ on the project when he discovered that the local lumber yards kept a "cull pile" of posts/ timbers that were imperfect and lots cheaper that the first rate posts. We used these culls to lay around the bottom. Nancy
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